St. Louis police report that cops located a sixteen-year-old boy who was lying on the front steps of a residence in the Baden neighborhood yesterday afternoon with wounds in his chest and back from a shooting.

As of this writing, the unnamed victim is in critical and unstable condition at a local hospital.

Police have few other details on this latest city shooting at this time.

Incident: Assault 1st (Shooting)
Location: 1000 block of Wall
Date/Time: 05/05/2013 @ 15:35
Victim: 16-year old black male
Suspect: Unknown
Officers responded to a call for a "shooting" and upon arrival, located the victim on the front steps of the above address with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest and back. The victim was conveyed to a local hospital and listed in critical/unstable condition. The investigation is ongoing.

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